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October 15, 1522: King of Spain Charles V named Hernán Cortés governor of Mexico.
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On October 15, 1529, the Ottoman armies under Suleiman ended their siege of Vienna and turned back to Belgrade.
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On October 15, 1764, Edward Gibbon observed a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspired him to begin work on writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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Herbert W. McBride, the author of A Rifleman Went To War, was born in Waterloo, Indiana October 15, 1873.
He died in Indianapolis of a heart attack on March 17, 1933, shortly after finishing writing his A Rifleman Went To War manuscript.
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Today, a special prayer request from SurvivalBlog Senior Editor James Wesley, Rawles (JWR).
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